Knowledge and Adoption Gap Among the Fish Farmers Regarding Composite Fish Culture Technology

The study was conducted in Raipur district of Chhattisgarh. Regarding the extent of knowledge and adoption, majority of the fish farmers had medium level of knowledge (58.78%) and low level of adoption (66.25 percent) with favorable (48.75%) opinion towards the composite fish culture technology. Majority of farmers had medium level of knowledge. While, 56.1% respondents showed knowledge gap for control measures for disease and insects followed by 50.46% respondents for eradication of weed, fertilizer application in pond and selection of seed and their ratio. Majority of respondents (66.25%) had low level of adoption, while, wide gap in adoption was found for control measures of harmful disease and insets followed by management of feed, fertilizer application in pond.